Professor Michel Abs

The Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC)

In the political and economic upheavals shaking the world, human society has been transformed into a slave market where homelands and nations are sold as spare parts or secondary components, used in the projects of those who see people only as bank numbers or tools for power and influence.

Our countries, whether we view our national belonging as Lebanon, the Antiochian Levant, the Middle East and North Africa, or the Arab lands, have been subjected to foreign control since the end of World War I, placed under siege, and fragmented into artificial mini-states, most of which do not constitute a fully functioning nation or a state capable of securing sovereignty and economic self-sufficiency.

Today we live a new chapter in the tragedies of these homelands, where siege and fragmentation have reached their peak and dependency has entered its most dangerous phase. “We will enter a long period of severe slavery,” said one of the visionaries of my country, and indeed we have entered this era after it was prepared for a long time by plunging the countries into successive crises of every kind, leaving them in a constant state of instability. We are the nation with the largest number of expatriates in the world, who in some countries may outnumber residents.

We bleed in every way: human capital, natural resources, looted treasures from the earth, financial capital, investments, and the list goes on. We see our children build the world while their own countries fall far behind.

This is not fate; it is the work of our own hands.

“God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves,” as the noble saying goes…

مرصد فلسطين - تقرير الجمعة 13 آذار/ مارس 202

On the Occasion of the Yearly Anniversary of His Enthronement as Coptic Catholic Patriarch

On the occasion of the Yearly Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Beatitude Patriarch Anba Ibrahim Isaac as Coptic Catholic Patriarch, the Secretary General Professor Michel Abs, on behalf of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) family, extends his warmest congratulations to His Beatitude, who is also the President of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Egypt, wishing him continued health and success in his Pastoral service as a faithful servant of the Church of Christ.

The Middle East Council of Churches also raises its Prayers to God on the intention of His Beatitude to bless his service, bestow His graces upon him, and grant him the power of the Holy Spirit to lead his Church to the salvation in the name of Jesus Christ, and to remain a model of love and endless giving in the field of the Lord, wishing him many years of goodness, blessing, and holiness.

MECC Archive 2008

Entitled:

"A Beacon for Human Dignity "

This gathering will be broadcasted live on the Middle East Council of Churches’ Facebook page and on abouna.org موقع أبونا: إعلام من أجل الانسان.

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MECC Archive 2008